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Re:Stop Calling Each New Disaster “The New Normal” by swader999 on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:15AM (#36355301)
We won't reduce emissions unless there's a massive reduction in population. Otherwise normal people will adapt. Less people will die if the planet warms more. Extreme cold events kill more than heat waves do and that's even without including the seasonal flu and cardiac events related to the cold.
Re:Stop Calling Each New Disaster “The New Normal” by Timon3 on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:37AM (#36355556)
There are hard limits on how much heat a human can take. We cannot adapt beyond, except for literally never going outside again.
Re:Stop Calling Each New Disaster “The New Normal” by swader999 on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:59AM (#36355821)
Which is the norm and always has been in places like Arizona in the summer. I didn't go out for more than an hour at a time in Tucson in the summer when I lived there. Anything longer and you seriously thought about and prepared for it. This has always been the way humans lived in these areas.
Re:Stop Calling Each New Disaster “The New Normal” by exitb on Friday June 16, 2023 @09:31AM (#36356298)
Arizona is a warm, but dry place. Temperature of 38C can be both mildly inconvenient and deadly, depending on the humidity. There are densely populated areas of the world that are much more humid than Arizona and are getting warmer. Eventually people will ditch those places and start to move towards milder climates.
Re:Stop Calling Each New Disaster “The New Normal” by Timon3 on Friday June 16, 2023 @09:33AM (#36356314)
And what do you do if it's not just in the summer, but the whole year? What if it's parts of the earth where a lot of poor people live?
Re:Stop Calling Each New Disaster “The New Normal” by CleaveIt2Beaver on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:54AM (#36358769)
What crops do you grow in those conditions?
Re:Stop Calling Each New Disaster “The New Normal” by abenga on Friday June 16, 2023 @12:22PM (#36359255)
So we should be fine with an increasing proportion of the populated environment that never experienced these conditions beginning to?